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I 10 THJS D JE S JE E JB T rARMJSR SATURDAY, JANUARY g, 1909. I i POULTRY H fin nil - ! iimnriri - n B Th poultry show programs will Hk ht out next week. Have 'your entries B icady to send in to Secretary Sander B immediately on receipt of a copy. B o B COMMERCIAL POULTRY. B CHAPTER III. Bt C. S. Gorlinc. l Pct-nlunm is not alone in her glory m of commercial poultry; far from it. B Away to the south a small matter m of some five or six hundred' miles B lies tho village of Los Angeles (pcr B fectly snfc in this announcement as H there is something like eight hundred B miles cf mountain and desert between B us and the ire of any resentful dwel ls ler of the little town) and for miles B Mirrouuding, may be seen ranches of K front one to ten acres in extent, from H of them devoted to the strictly fancy, B hut by far the greater number given B over wholly to commercial poultry H pure and simple. Here, too, is lo H' catcd the largest plant in the world B devoted to the raising of ssuabs. H Thousands upon thousands of pigeons B filing about unconfmed, until one is almost tempted to Relieve that all of the pigeons in the world have left their homes and come here to winter in this place. Then, as one goes north, on the Coast or in the interior, numerous ranches, both small and great meet the eye on every hand, the Leghorns and Minorcas predomi nating, showing that egg production is the result sought. Of late years, the Orpingtons and Wyandottcs arc becoming much more numerous, and because of the profit derived there from, milk-fed roasters arc becoming the fashion. When one reaches the Santa Clara Valley, sonvc seventy miles south of Frisco, the large egg ranches again come into view, but nearly always in connection with fruit raising; ten, twenty and forty acre in fruit and White Leghorns, the runs laid out amongst the trees, indicate that here something more than nicru pleasure is derived from poultry cul turt. Most of these plants are oper ated by nun who arc in the business for the profit realized, but quite a number arc owned and operated by women, notably, one near Los An geles, owned by we will say Mrs. I "They Look Good to Me!" j B That's What Everyone Says about i !"MANDY LEE" I Incubators and Brooders I With the new models there is absolute- 1 ly no GUESSWORK-Heat, Moisture I and Ventilation, measured and regulat- I ed to a Scientific nicety j, j 1 Porter-Walton Co. j Salt Lake City 1 Agents for Utah and Idaho I FEEE CATALOG TJPON REQUEST f Smith. Eight or nine years ago this lady purchased a single sitting of Duff Orpington eggs. She says, even now, it almost takes her breath away to think of the price she paid, but she wanted the best and she knew she would have to pay the price, so she made the effort, and was success ful in getting a start, and! she states that at no time since she began breed ing these birds has she been able to fill all of her orders for stock and eggs. She raises many hundreds each year and states that she has never sold a bird for less than three dollars, and that from their sale, she is mak ing a good living and is enabled to bank a neat sum each year. The lady is a widow, and before beginning with poultry, was trying to eke out an existence by keeping a few cows. Between Sacramento and' San Fran cisco is another lady engaged in pro ducing eggs for market, and high-class cockerels for exhibition, thus com bining market productions and the strictly fancy. Before beginning with poultry, she was a school teacher, and a good one, but her health, al ways delicate, did not thrive under the close confinement of the school room and she determined to engage in some occupation that would en able her to 1jc out of doors. Having been left a little home and) few acres by her father, she decided on an egg ranch and after getting fairly well started began exhibiting some of her best birds and with a considerable degree of success from the start. Be sides her living, she claims to cam from fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars per annum from her poultry plant. Another lady in southern Cali fornia took up poultry culture as a fad 'because she was weary of the irk some duties of society, and she en gaged in the strictly fancy with such marked success that for several years her annual earnings have been sev eral thousand dollars. Leaving the State of California and traveling north, many large egg ranches and smaller ones greet the eye all along the Oregon coast to Portland, many of them in combina tion with fruit or fruit and dairying. The coast country of central Oregon is ideal for dairying and it is to be wondered at that more of the dairy men do not includ'e -egg ranching with their business, but some'of them have lemarked that the dairy business is - - - well enough without any side line and judging from the many fine residenc es and barns that have been built with the proceeds of old Bossic, and the nice bank accounts claimed for these fortunate coast dwellers, it is more than likely that this is true. Farther up the coast country is located tho bustling city of Seattle with her in creasing population of two hundred thousand busy people from every country and every clinic known. In what was a great forest wilderness twenty years ago is a handsome mod em city and within the last ten years the poultry industry in and about this I great seaport has grown by leaps m and bounds. Thousands of people in ' the State of Washington are engaged wholly or in part in supplying the great hungry demand of the city for poultry and eggs. Twenty miles south of the city some enterprising young men have established- a plant for the production of eggs for mar ket with a total investment in build ings and stock of something over twenty thousand dollars. Leaving Seattle to the south, the same inter est in poultry culture is observed as far north as Vancouver, B. C. Every where the people seem to be awaken ing to the importance of the industry and to the profit to be derived there from. These are only instances of what is being done in the far West. In Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska the interest is just as general and in good Old) Missouri, 1 Iowa, Illinois and Indiana the song of the hen and the lusty crow of the cock is heard in ever increasing mini- bcrs, and we want to say here that the J largest poultry plants are not con- fined to the Coast country by any means. While Petalumn and' vicinity I have some of the largest and while f there arc more people dependent sole- j1 ly upon poultry products in her en- I vironments than in any other section of the world, we know of a plant in central Illinois owned by a man that was fond of poultry boy. Call him Billy Jones for short. Billy went to school in a log school house out in the edge of a praire that we well remember and always like- fried chick en or hard boiled eggs for his lunch J which he would bring in u gallon tin bucket with molasses cup on the lid and a bottle of milk in the bucket f and in season, a few green onions in f the spring and apples in the fall and Winter, Doubtless many will remenini- ' 90